(19 quotes found)
“He was idolized from his twentieth year on.”
Matt Busby
“Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.”
Joseph Brodsky
“The additional share ,deducted for the eldest shall be one twentieth ,of the estate and the best of all chattels, for the middlemost half of that, but for the youngest one fourth.”
Guru Nanak
“But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.”
Bible
“In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.”
“We're having productive conversations with Twentieth, but we're a step shy of closing a deal.”
Robert Greenblatt
“This is the same studio, Twentieth Century Fox, that showed Arab-Muslim terrorists as vermin in a movie called 'True Lies' with Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1994.”
Jack Shaheen
“How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!”
John Milton
“Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.”
Greg Egan
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